An environment variable is a globally, system-wide defined value that influences the way a process runs on a computer.
RealFlow's → Project Variables Editor gives you an overview of your system's environment variables.
Here is a complete list of all available variables and which information they contain:
RealFlow Application
When RF_201510_PATH is active all terminal applications will look for RealFlow under the given path. This way it is very easy to open RealFlow from a shell program without specifying the path to our simulation tool. Instead of this command line string:
prompt>"/Applications/RealFlow 201510/RealFlow.app/Contents/MacOS/RealFlow”
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The variable expects the correct path to the RealFlow application, for example on OS X:
RF_201510_PATH=“"/Applications/RealFlow 201510/RealFlow.app/Contents/MacOS/RealFlow”RealFlow"
GUI Layout
If the operating system’s environment layout variable is defined then the layout is always updated with this variable ignoring your own settings:
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RF_STARTUP_PYTHON_SCRIPT_FILE_PATH=”"/Applications/RealFlow 2015/startup.rfs”rfs"
Default Project
When this environment variable is defined RealFlow will always load the project specified directly after the program's launch.
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